From: Dominik Werder <dwerder@...>
Date: 2003-06-11T00:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Regexp question

>> And please show me how I can easily substitute a single quotation mark 
>> by a backslash and single qotation
> Have you tried \\\' ?

Yes, doesn't work, here an example:

irb(main):001:0> puts 'That isn\'t easy'.gsub("'", "\\\'")
That isnt easyt easy


irb(main):001:0> puts 'That isn\'t easy'.gsub("'", '\\\'')     # <--- used 
single quotation marks in replacement
That isnt easyt easy


strange...

bye!
Dominik